Surfacing machine



l/VVE/VTOH WEE-avails A TTOR/vEYS W. H. FRANCIS SURFACING MACHINE FiledApril 1 1922 7 WW W fi Q 5 WE May 8, 1923 WITNESSES a/ve Patented May 8,1923.

UNITED STATES 1,454,731 artar space;

' WILLIAM III Farmers, or orIEnaYvA n, Kansas.

sUnFAoINe MACHINE.

Application'filed. April 19, 1922. Serial No..555,650.

To all whomitmay concern: p

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H; FRANCIS,

a citizen of the United States, and resident of Cherryvale, in thecounty of Montgomery and State of Kansas, have invented a new andImproved Surfacing Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact descri tion. 1 i

y invention relates to a surfacing machine, and aims to provide a deviceof this character adapted to be used in conjunction with the manufactureof bricks, and forthe purpose of making a mat-textured facing brick orsimilar member. I a

It is a well appreciated fact thatnumerous expedients have been resortedto with a View of providing a machine or process whereby a brick orsimilar member might be produced which would be suitable for fac- 2 ingpurposes, and present an artistic effect,

such as that of a mat-texture, but the present invention aims to providea device of this character capable of handling a great number of memberssuch as bricks, and also aims to provide an extremely simpleconstruction permitting of this effect being produced. I

It is a further object of this invention to provide a machine of thetype described by means of which the effect desired will also beenhanced, incident to the factthat mechanism will be provided not aloneserving to digthe surface of the member being treated, but

this mechanism will also vre-deposit the dug.

material upon the face of the memb-er..

Further objects of this invention will be come apparent in the annexedspecification:

taken in connection with the drawingswhich latter illustrate onepractical embodiment of the same and in which;

Figure 1 is a plan view of a machine embodying my improved construction;

Figure 2 is a partly sectional side elevation thereof, and

Figure 3 is an enlarged fragmentary view of a detail of construction.

In these views the reference numeral 5 indicates the discharge end ofthe brick making machine adjacent which my surfacing machine ispositioned, it being noted, that as the column 6 of flexible material isfed from the machine 5 onto my surfacing machine that the same comes torest upon a suitable type of conveyor, which in the em bodimentillustrated includes an endless belt 7 passing around wheels 8v andresting upon rollers 9. v I V Thus assuming that the brick makingmachine is being actuated, and that one of the Wheels8 isv beingdriven-by any suitable means such as a belt 10,it willbe appreciatedthatthe column of material 6 will move along the ,upperface of thesurfacingmachine,and Vbeldischarged from the rear end thereof, to a suitablereceiving member ,65 (not shown). Now assuming thatthe upper,a'nd one ofthe side faces of the; column 6 is tozbe surfaced in the mannerindicated, it will be seen that I employ two similar members foraccomplishing this purpose, and it will be noted that each-of thesemembersin" cludes .a shaft 11 which may be driven by suitable mechanism12, and is carried in bearings 13 positioned adjacent to'the col-; 5 umnof material which is vfed along the surfacing machine.- Each, of theseshafts provides an operative portionpreferably com-. prisinga squarebar. 14, and, as has been indicated .by the'arrows. in Figures 1 and 2,these bars are revolved in av direction; opposite tothat in whichthecolumn 6 moves; Attention is now invited to the fact-that the cornersof-the bars when revolved will extend in a plane beyond that in whichtheouter andsidefaces ofthe column 6 extends. Thus, assuming that thecolumn is being. moved in the direction of the arrow indi catedin Figure1 by means of the mechanism Within the brick machine, togetherwith theconveyor belt 7 and further, assuming that the shafts 11 are beingrevolvedat a relatively high speed inathe direction of the arrows alsoindicated in Figure 1, itwill be appreciatedthat as .the column .6 movesalong the face-of the-machine thatthecorners of the bars 14L willbite,or dig "into the column,ofvmateriallthus obviously re -j moving acertain amount of the same, which surplusage of material will adhere to,the faces of the bar, as has been clearly shown in Figure 3, and will bere-deposited upon the face of the column 6 upon the next revolution ofthe bar.

Thus, contrary to machines of this char actor in which a scraping actiontakes place, my, machine provides a digging action, and a re-depositingaction, which will not alone serve to provide a mat-surface, but willalso M0 produce an extremely artistic facing brick or similar memberincident to the fact that numerous portions of the face of the memherare excavated to a certain depth, and the material accruing from theseexcavations is re-deposited upon the face of said member to thus enhancethe artistic effect produced.

Thus it will be appreciated that the objects of this invention have beenaccomplished and it will further be understood that numerousmodifications of structure might readily be resorted to without in theleast departing from the scope of my claims; which are- 1 l. A surfacingmachine including a conveyor adapted to receive a column of material,means adjacent to said conveyor for digging into the face of saidcolumn, said means including a rotatable member having a digging edgeelongated axially of the member and rigidly carried by said member andmeans for rotating said member in the direction opposite the directionof movement of the'column of material on the conveyor whereby onregulating the speed of rotation of themember the digging edge thereofoperates to remove material from the column, convey such removedmaterial awayfrom and then toward the column, and redispose such removedmaterial on the column.

2. A surfacing machine including a conveyor adapted to receive a columnofmaterial, means adjacent to said conveyor for digging into the face ofsaid column, said.

means including a rotatable member having a digging edge elongatedaxially of the member, said member being of polygonal cross-section andsaid edge being formed at the meeting line of a pair of adjoining facesof the member and means for rotating said member in the directionopposite'the direction of movement of the column of material on theconveyor whereby on regulating the speed of rotation of the member thedigging edge thereof I operates to remove material from the column,convey such removed material away from and then toward the column, andredispose such removed material on the column. a

3. A surfacing machine including a conveyor, means'for moving saidconveyor, said conveyor being adapted to receive material, surfacingmeans positioned adjacent to said conveyor and to the material carriedthereby, said surfacing meansbeing adapted to deposit material upon saidfirst named material and means for advancing the means last-mentionedtoward the material on the conveyor and in a direction opposite to thedirection of movement of such material on the conveyor.

4. A surfacing machine including a conveyor, means for moving saidconveyor, said conveyor being adapted to receive a column of material,surfacing means positioned adjacent to said conveyor and material, andmeans forming a part of said last named means for digging the surface ofsaid material and re-depositing the material thus removed upon the faceof said column and means for advancing the means last-mentioned towardthe material on the conveyor and in a direction opposite to thedirection of movement vof such material on the con:

veyor.

5. A surfacing machine including a conveyor, means for moving saidconveyor, a bar movably positioned adjacent to said conveyor, said barpresenting a plurality of elongate edge portions formed from thematerial of the member means for rotating said conveyor and 'bar, andmeans for rotating said bar in a direction opposite, to the direc tionof movement of the material onfthc conveyor. a

6. A surfacing machine including a con-. veyor, a shaft mounted adjacentto said conveyor, a square bar attached-to said shaft, means forrotating said shaft and means for moving said conveyor and means forcoupling the two means last mentioned to rotate the bar in a directionopposite to the direction of travel'of the conveyor.

.7. A surfacing machine including a conveyor, ashaft mounted adjacent tosaid con-' veyor,-asquare bar attached to said'shaft,

and means for rotating said shaft and means.

for moving said conveyor, said conveyor being adapted to carry a columnof material, the edgesof said bar being adapted to extend to a pointbeyond the face of said col-- umn and means for coupling the two meanslast mentioned torotate the bar in a direction opposite to the directionof travel of the conveyor. 1 a

WILLIAM H. FRANCIS.

